Open Corp Dev: An Idea Too Bold For Facebook Or Dropbox

Re:Open Corp Dev: An Idea Too Bold For Facebook Or Dropbox by ivankirigin on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:49PM (#6555449)

Getting a team is hard! And if you've found one, you are worth more than a regular hide.

Demonstrating skill through building a product is also hard, and also helps build value.

I think of the math like this: are the next 1000 engineers at Facebook worth 1% of their market cap? Yes, the math works.

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Re:Open Corp Dev: An Idea Too Bold For Facebook Or Dropbox by PaulHoule on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:58PM (#6555531)

I think more fundamentally the prevalence of aqui-hires proves that software management isn't working.

In the kind of world where the government can't get the federal Obamacare exchange working, and people pretend that Waterfall is a competitor to Agile while really, the most common alternative is no process at all. Most companies are highly effective at demotivating software developers, and if you get hired through the usual process you'll start out on the bottom of the pyramid and behind the 8 ball.

If it costs them $1M+ to hire you there's just a chance they'll behave as if your time is worthwhile.

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Re:Open Corp Dev: An Idea Too Bold For Facebook Or Dropbox by ivankirigin on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @07:39PM (#6557087)

> If it costs them $1M+ to hire you there's just a chance they'll behave as if your time is worthwhile.

I like your last sentence.

There is another side here too: companies often overestimate their ability to manage acquisitions. A price floor means that those more likely to be poor integrations will be filtered out.

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